Re: no boot?

Tony Godshall wrote:
> I was recently told that on newer bootldr's the VFAT
> partition has to be, iirc, 16MB or larger.
>
> You should easily find the thread in the archives
> a month or two back.
>
> According to Harmon Seaver,
>
>> Just trying to install intimate on my ipaq. Created the 10meg FAT16 partition
>>on /dev/hda (a 512meg CF), and the rest a linux (ext3) partition, both
>>primary. Made a msdos filesystem on hda1, made a /boot dir, and put
>>initrd,params, and zimage on from the initmate.handhelds.org/install dir.
>> It doesn't boot. I reboot from familiar and hit the "boot hdd/vfat/cf" button,
>>the screen goes gray and stays that way.
>> Next I tried the initrd from intimate.handhelds.org/h3800 since that has a bit
>>later date and larger size, although mine is a 3765. Same thing -- no boot.

I have also found that vfat does not work, I have to mount the
filesystem as msdos, or the bootldr complains about the filename. I
have even had to do this:

umount /mnt/hda
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda -t msdos
cd /mnt/hda/boot
mv zimage zimage.2
cp zimage.2 zimage
mv initrd initrd.2
cp initrd.2 initrd
rm *.2

Before this procedure intimate would not boot, while after it boots
correctly.

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                                                 Niklas